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A spokesperson for Transport Canada says the federal office asked for a document to be removed from Xtra’s website because it contained the direct phone number for one of its media relations spokespeople, a number that is publicly available online. Xtra had uploaded the documen...
Author : Andrea Houston
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST
Ottawa Centre’s NDP MP Paul Dewar is blazing his path to the top through the grassroots of the party. Xtra reporter Dale Smith spoke to Dewar about how he plans to engage Canada’s queer community in his campaign for the party leadership. Xtra:...
Author : Dale Smith
Publ.Date : Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST
It is a Saturday morning in the heart of the Marais, Paris’s well-known gay district. A young African man paces nervously in front of the Centre LGBT Paris-Île-de-France, hands in his pockets, staring nervously at the unopened door. Ibrahim Touré came to France from...
Author : Ruby Pratka
Publ.Date : Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST
UPDATE: Feb 1, 10:50pm - When Xtra posts original documents to the web, we typically use a free online service called Scribd. This involves uploading the file to Scribd's server and then embedding the document in our web page. On Tuesday, XtraAuthor : Andrea Houston
Publ.Date : Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST
Commercial artist and illustrator Candace (Jimmie) Sepulis has a thing for the number three. She’s interested in the grey, life in between, the binary. What exists between day and night? What develops from this and that? What are the relationships among past, present and future? Author : Shannon Webb-Campbell
Publ.Date : Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST
While the Harper Conservatives have long been accused of thumbing their noses at global norms and scientific fact in the creation of environmental and crime-fighting policies, some experts are now criticizing the government for a similar approach to international human rights. ...
Author : Dale Smith
Publ.Date : Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST
The president of the new Delta Lambda Phi (DLP) chapter at McGill University says he has absolutely no idea what’s in store for him and his brothers this weekend when the fraternity’s US national directors and the New York City chapter’s mentors jet into Montreal for the char...
Author : Richard Burnett
Publ.Date : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews appeared before the Senate committee on legal and constitutional affairs Feb 1 as the omnibus crime bill began 11 days of hearings. With just an hour allotted for questions on the entire bill, senators quickly objected that th...
Author : Dale Smith
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST
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After Margaret claimed Bristol was forced to appear on 'Dancing With the Stars' by mom Sarah Palin, the single mother responds in a lengthy open letter but closes with a gay joke — was it really a joke or an insult? It appears that once again the Palin family is...
Publ.Date : Sun, 5 Dec 2010 17:21:00
The federal appeals court in the Proposition 8 case hinted Monday at a ruling that would allow gays and lesbians to marry in California while leaving other states' laws intact - a restrained approach seemingly designed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Lawyers challenging the 2008 initiative urged the...
Publ.Date : Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:08:00
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ripped into Sen. John McCain on Saturday, saying the Arizona Republican has issued a "dizzying" defense of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning gays from openly serving in the military. McCain, his party's 2008 presidential nominee, has defended "an obsolete, embarrassing, discriminatory policy...
Publ.Date : Sun, 5 Dec 2010 12:47:00
The Pentagon on Nov. 30 released its long-awaited study on "don't ask, don't tell," which showed little risk in allowing gay men and women to serve openly in the military. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says repealing the policy would not produce the "wrenching, dramatic change that many have feared and...
Publ.Date : Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:07:00
The adult film performer who tested HIV positive at a San Fernando Valley clinic this fall spoke out for the first time Tuesday, calling for mandatory condom use in porn productions, improved testing for sexually transmitted disease and follow-up care for fellow performers. Derrick Burts, 24, said he tested HIV...
Publ.Date : Wed, 8 Dec 2010 08:30:00
Six months after a gay marriage law took effect in Portugal, 221 gay and lesbian couples have married, the AFP reported. The figures were released Friday by the Ministry of Justice. One-hundred-fifty-six of the couples were male and sixty-five were female. An additional 202 marriages in which one of the...
Publ.Date : Sun, 5 Dec 2010 20:31:00
The defenders of California's gay marriage ban took a pummeling during the first federal trial to explore the civil rights implications of outlawing same-sex marriages. They summoned only two witnesses, one of whom left the stand looking thrashed. Even the lead attorney was left groping for words when pressed to...
Publ.Date : Sun, 5 Dec 2010 15:26:00
Atlanta's long battle with the Atlanta Eagle club is finally over, and the city is $1 million poorer for it. On Monday, the Atlanta City Council passed a resolution to settle a lawsuit in its dispute with the Atlanta Eagle, a gay bar in Midtown that was the location of...
Publ.Date : Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:27:00
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(Boca Raton, Florida) Following more than a decade of lobbying by faculty members, admistrators and students, the Board of Trustees of Florida Atlantic University voted this morning to specifically include “sexual orientation” among the classes protected from discrimination and harassment. “This is a small step forward for FAU,” said Rand Hoch, President and Founder of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council, a local nonprofit organization founded in 1988, which is dedicated to dedicated to
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Publ.Date : Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:54:49 +0000
As Reported by Change.org, Paola Ziritti is unthinkably brave to speak publicly about the “clinic.” She endured physical assault, sexual abuse, and a constant battery of insults. Guards would even throw buckets of cold water and urine on her. For two years, this was Paola’s waking nightmare… because she’s a lesbian. The “doctors” and guards at the clinic were trying to “cure” her. Paola lives in Ecuador, where these so-called clinics are terrifyingly common — although the
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Publ.Date : Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:16:38 +0000
As Reported by Change.org, When Katy Butler was in junior high, bullies who called her a “dyke” slammed a locker door on her hand. Katy never reported the assault because she was afraid her school wouldn’t do anything to help. If the Michigan state Senate has its way, Katy’s school won’t have to help students bullied in the future, either. Last week, the Michigan state Senate passed an anti-bullying bill. But minutes before they voted, Republican
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Publ.Date : Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:51:27 +0000
(West Palm Beach, Florida) The Palm Beach County School Board unanimously voted this evening to move forward with a policy allowing school district employees with domestic partners to take the same family and medical leave granted to opposite-sex, married employees under federal law. Final approval is expected to occur before year’s end.The action was taken at the request of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender
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Publ.Date : Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:58:08 +0000
Tampa, Florida - The Florida Consortium for HIV/AIDS Research (FCHAR) is the scientific arm of the public policy research, advocacy and educational nonprofit organization, The AIDS Institute. Conceived in 2010, the Consortium now comprises 116 academic, public health and private HIV researchers from seven universities, the Florida Department of Health’s Bureau of HIV/AIDS, county health departments, the state laboratory, and the private sector. FCHAR members account for 366 recently published and ongoing HIV-related studies, as reflected
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Publ.Date : Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:43:14 +0000
San Francisco – Transgender Law Center (TLC) is proud to announce the hire of Ilona Turner as Legal Director. “Ilona has shown immense dedication and skill in working to end discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming people. We’re ecstatic to have her join our team,” said Masen Davis, Executive Director, “We’re thrilled that she has experience advocating for equality in the courtroom, statehouses, city halls, and also in the community.” Turner spent several years working
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Publ.Date : Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:15:16 +0000
The GayWebSource.com – News Team found a gay marriage video that was posted on Youtube.com about 10 months ago of a 19 year old young man talking about his two mothers. Zach Wahls, a University of Iowa student who spoke about the strength of his family during a public forum on House Joint Resolution 6 in the Iowa House of Representatives. Wahls has two mothers, and came to oppose House Joint Resolution 6 which would end civil
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Publ.Date : Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:45:51 +0000
The Gay & Lesbian Review (www.glreview.com) is a bimonthly magazine of history, culture, and politics. When it was founded in 1994, the GLR filled a major void in gay culture: an intelligent, probing magazine for thinking readers that covered the full range of topics of interest to GLBT people. The fact that the GLR is still around 18 years later is a testament to the need for a magazine that challenges readers with in-depth articles
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Publ.Date : Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:10:03 +0000
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